Another episode of MetaVerse and this time around, we have Shinmaru as our special guest to add some more fun into the mix. Not to mention, we recommend some less heard anime for our listeners and Jrow does his first stint of Karaoke~

We recorded this five days ago, on 28th of May, 2011 and this time around the Meta Cast has Jrow, Fosh, Hato, myself and a special guest host: Shinmaru from Unmei Kaihen. We Metanornies comfily interview him and have the usual round of fun while recording. Also, just plugging the recent coverage of some very exciting conventions by Overcooled, Jrow and Hoshi respectively: Anime North, Animazement and Fanime!

End Note: Wow, it looks like a link orgy above! But anyways, we had a great time with Shinmaru. As I keep on reminding, we are working on improving MetaVerse and as always would look forward to your feedback on how you want your audio-gasms delivered. xD Nah, I’m not talking about Oshigoto but you can catch my drift. So, till next time, Ja ne~

Some team love for Shinmaru. Thanks for dropping by at an ungoldy hour and hanging with us! Peeps, do check out his blog!

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46 Responses to “MetaVerse 04 – Dance with Shinmaru”

Just to expand on the Patlabor business: The route I went with is first OVA series –> Patlabor 1 + 2 (the movies) –> Patlabor TV –> New Files OVA. You can run through the first OVA (7 episodes) and the two movies and decide if you like the series enough to tackle the latter two (47 episodes and 16 episodes, respectively).

I went with the first movie –> OVA –> TV series –> New files –> second movie –> WXIII. In hindsight, might not have been the best order, but it worked for me. The second patlabor movie that Oshii directed is definitely one of my favorites.

I think Tronulax’s order is probably the most accurate order wise, but I suppose watching the movies before tackling the TV series would probably work out better.

I started with Patlabor 2 on vhs when I was about 12; a terrible choice all round, although to be fair this was in the pre-internet days when anime was really hard to come by in my country. Even now, only the first two films have ever been published. A damned shame!

I only advocate my order because I heard the first OVA and the two movies make up one continuity, while the TV series and New Files are a separate continuity. I could be wrong, though. I also thought going for the first three in the beginning would be easier for folks to handle, length-wise, although the movies are quite a bit heavier in content than even the most serious TV episodes!

Thanks for another great podcast guys. Also, it’s cool to put a voice to Shinmaru and his awesome mecha tastes; Patlabor 2 is my favourite animated movie of all time!

I’m also currently watching Banner of Stars which, if anything, is an improvement over Crest. It’s certainly more enjoyable than anything airing this season, with the possible exception of Steins Gate.

Also, David O Russell leaving the Uncharted movie is even better news than the PSN coming back online. Nathan Fillion FTW!

PPPS: I think you should try to limit how much external noises there are (I could hear typing at times) of course, this doesn’t relate to Shinmaru and if it was Shinmaru then this idea isn’t that beneficial since you couldn’t do anything about it.

You guys should stay with a limited number of hosts. Get the people who talk more to do this little project of Metanorns because it would sound quite unorganised once it reaches up to 8+ hosts including guest.

I would like to ask you Kyokai, what does the podcast aim to do? Is there a certain structure you’re following with the podcast? In my view, the podcast’s main topic is to bring guests in and question them. Though it’s good you’re talking about what is happening and what you’re doing. It would also be good to focus on random main topics like how the DDD does.

Don’t force yourself to limit the length of the podcast though cause if you want to put some awesome stuff in, it’d have to be a tag long ;D But not anything like 3 hours or more (as stated in metaverse)

Of course, my suggestion is only one in a million ;D It’s not that big of a deal. Just as long as you don’t completely change what makes Metaverse, Metaverse then it’s fine right?

I appreciate the feedback though much of the suggestions have already been catered to.

I’m amazed that one of our oldest fanboy skipped the parts where I specifically mentioned quality improvements and host rotation. I believe in team work and every team builds their own style; you can already see us evolving. The aim to start up MetaVerse was simply expanding to another medium because we are on our fourth-year running and new content is a must to keep things fresh.

Our format is not guest interviewing only as we’ll not have guests every episode. You can check the old show notes for different topics that we have covered. You can say, we are only pushing ourselves for improvements rather than anything else.

And I miss yet another chance at doing a podcast with a guest. It sounds like you guys had a lot of fun, once again 😀 I know I’m biased because I’m part of Metanorn but I still love hearing you guys talk about anime~